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Chang-Yu Chang 張昌祐

Professional Appointment and Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Data Driven Discovery Postdoctoral Fellow. Advisor: Dr. Corlett W. Wood

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2022-

Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

Advisor: Dr. Alvaro Sanchez

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2017-2022

M.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University

Advisor: Dr. Sheng-Feng Shen

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2015-2017

B.S., Life Science, National Taiwan University

Presidential and Dean’s Award (ranking top 5% in the class) GPA: 4.1/4.3

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2011-2015

Publications

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Little population divergence of a facultative plant symbiont

In prep

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2024

Chang-Yu Chang#, Terrence Topping-Brown, Jazmine Rud, Gerardo Bencosme, McCall Calvert, Corlett Wood#

Emergent coexistence in multispecies microbial communities

Science

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2023

Chang-Yu Chang#, Djordje Bajic#, Sylvie Estrela, Jean Vila, Alvaro Sanchez#

Top-down and bottom-up cohesiveness in microbial community coalescence

PNAS

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2022

Juan Diaz-Colunga*, Nanxi Lu*, Alicia Sanchez-Gorostiaga*, Chang-Yu Chang, Helen Cai, Joshua Goldford, Mikhail Tikhonov, Alvaro Sanchez#

Functional attractors in microbial community assembly

Cell Systems

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2022

Sylvie Estrela#, Jean C C Vila, Nanxi Lu, Djordje Bajic, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Chang-Yu Chang, Joshua E. Goldford, Alicia Sanchez-Gorostiaga, Alvaro Sanchez#

Engineering complex communities by directed evolution

Nature Ecology & Evolution

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2021

Chang-Yu Chang*, Jean C C Vila*, Madeline Bender, Richard Li, Madeleine C Mankowski, Molly Bassette, Julia Borden, Stefan Golfier, Paul Gerald L Sanchez, Rachel Waymack, Xinwen Zhu, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Sylvie Estrela, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Alvaro Sanchez#

Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities

Annual Review of Biophysics

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2021

Alvaro Sanchez#, Jean C C Vila, Chang-Yu Chang, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Sylvie Estrela, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez

Artificially selecting bacterial communities using propagule strategies

Evolution

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2020

Chang-Yu Chang*, Melisa L Osborne*, Djordje Bajic, Alvaro Sanchez#

Ecological effects of cellular computing in microbial populations

Natural Computing

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2018

Maia Baskerville*, Arielle Biro*, Mike Blazanin*, Chang-Yu Chang*, Amelia Hallworth*, Nicole Sonnert*, Jean C C Vila*, Alvaro Sanchez#

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Data Driven Discovery Postdoctoral Fellow ($27,500)

University of Pennsylvania

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2022-2024

Government Fellowship for Oversea Study ($126,000)

Taiwan Ministry of Education

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2017-2020

Invited Seminars

Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University

Seminar

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2023

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica

Seminar

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2023

Princeton University

Seminar

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2021

University of Pennsylvannia

Seminar

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2021

International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Workshop on Limits to Diversity Assembly

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2021

Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University

Graduate student SMAL talks

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2020

Contributed Presentations

Evolution 2023. Contributed talk

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2023

ASN Asilomar 2023. Contributed talk

Honorable mention postdoc presentation

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2023

Connections Across Borders - Microbial Ecology Conference. Contributed talk

Travel grant $250; Yale GSA CTF grant $750

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2022

Evolution 2022. Contributed talk

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2022

The Graduate Research in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Annual Symposium (GREBE). Contributed talk

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2019

Microbial Sciences Institute Retreat, Yale University. Contributed poster

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2019

Yale EEB graduate student symposium. Contributed poster

Best contributed poster

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2019

17th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME). Contributed poster

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2018

18th Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology, Taiwan. Contributed talk

Winner Prize for oral presentation

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2017

15th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE). Contributed talk

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2016

Graduate student symposium, National Taiwan University. Contributed poster

Best contributed poster

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2016

Teaching and Mentoring

University of Pennsylvannia

Guest lecturer, Evolution
Undergrad mentor (Nehemias Abundo Quiroz)
Undergrad thesis mentor (Jazmine Rud)

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2022-

Yale University

TA, E&EB729: Microbial Ecology and Evolution
TA, BIOL104: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
TA, EEB250/550: Biology Of Terrestrial Arthropods
TA, EEB251L/551L: Laboratory for Biology Of Terrestrial Arthropods
TA, EEB223L/523L: Laboratory for Evolution & Functional Traits
Undergrad thesis mentor (Helen Cai)

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2019-2020

Marine Biological Laboratory

TA, PBoC2019: Physical Biology of the Cell summer course

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2019

National Taiwan University

TA, LS3022: Biostatistics
TA, LS1019: General Botany Lab

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2015-2016

Service

Manuscript reviewer for journals:

Ecology Letters, Ecology, ISciences, Nature Communications, Plant and Soil, Ecography

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Co-chair of postdoc events, UPenn Biology Department

Coordinated the postdoc social events and meetings

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2023-2024

Bilingual mentor, Evolution 2022

Guided non-native English-speaking students in preparing their presentations

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2022

President, Yale Taiwansese Student Association

Organized recreational and holiday events for Taiwanese students
Facilitated connections among Taiwanese students across universities

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2018-2020

Organizer, Yale EEB Hutchinson speaker

Dr. Dolph Schluter (UBC) invited as the 2019 Hutchinson Speaker
Organized and modulated invited speaker talks, sessions, and meetings

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2019

References

Dr. Corlett W. Wood

Postdoc advisor

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Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Alvaro Sanchez

Ph.D. advisor

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Principal investigator, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain

Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gomez

Dissertation committee

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Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine